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JANUARY 2, 2025

When our client expressed his wish to turn it into a home where he could gather his family for years to come, we agreed that this intervention should primarily respect the distinctive character of the site. The aim of this project was to transform an ancient farmhouse into a family home in Chamboirat, a small hamlet in Auvergnes countryside.

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MARCH 20, 2025

Stone gargoyles and grotesques feature on the buildings' rooflines The Main Quad has an undulating timber-frame roof topped with polygonal anodised-aluminium roof tiles. The photography is by Will Pryce.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

A dark grey roof shaped like an armadillo's shell peeks out behind a row of terraced houses on Station Lodge, a home in southwest London designed by local architectural studio Lacey & Salkytov. These were clad with dark exterior walls to conceal the dust from passing trains and reduce maintenance.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The studio also worked closely with the structural engineer AS Construction & Structural Engineering to create a very shallow floor plate, allowing for generous ceiling heights of up to 2.8 Playful portholes were added to its west facade. The photography is by Lorenzo Zandri and Jasper Fry.

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DECEMBER 9, 2023

Architecture studio Proctor & Shaw has topped a home extension with a steeply-angled roof clad with red pigmented zinc in East Dulwich, London. Home to a family of seven, Proctor & Shaw designed the project as an extension to an existing Edwardian house, extending the ground-floor kitchen and dining room.

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MARCH 7, 2025

Architecture studio Loader Monteith has replaced a dilapidated farm building in Angus, Scotland , with a home finished with stone, black-painted pine and a red corrugated-metal roof. In this area of Angus, byres are typically unrendered stone buildings with pitched roofs," Mack continued.

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DECEMBER 12, 2024

UK studio Twelve Architects has unveiled the Escapade Silverstone holiday-home development on the edge of the Silverstone race track, home of the British Grand Prix. Our job was to find a way to bring these two elements together and complement them both."

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JANUARY 6, 2025

Using a "low-maintenance material palette" Lake Flato created a stage and circular events pavilion on opposing ends of the park, giving both undulating metal roofs supported by thin columns. According to the team, the undulating roofs of the two performance structures reference the fluid movement of dance.

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DECEMBER 27, 2024

The clients' desire to be surrounded by both family and nature in their home called for a new adaptation of this once-ubiquitous typology, expanding and reframing the idea of outdoor living." A dark standing-seam metal roof rises into a steep gable and thin red, circular columns add asymmetrical pops of color around the exterior.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2025

The first-floor planning is more compact with a circulationspine connecting the four bedrooms and bathroom.Each room enjoys full width and height openings onto densely-planted roof gardens that growfeverishly undersloping fiberglass privacy screens. Post it here.

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MAY 9, 2024

Mexican studio COA Arquitectura has enclosed a winery outside of Guadalajara with a corrugated steel sawtooth roof and rammed earth walls. The main building is divided into two volumes A sawtooth steel roof covers the length of the facilities, lying exposed and uncovered by the stone walls on its far side.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2024

Project Details: Location: Whakamaru, New Zealand Architect: DCA Architects of Transformation / @ dca_architects Footprint: 3,218 square feet Builder: HRC Construction Structural Engineer: No.8 The home has a simple pitched roof, unadorned, undecorated, and true to the existing woolshed standing on the property.

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MARCH 4, 2025

The choreography of inhabitation is characterized by guests who eddy inside and out, into and out of the ground and bodies of water, collecting themselves in and around the sunken living room or one of several pool rooms: some for wading, some for diving, some for lounging in the shade provided by the extended beams of the roof.

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MARCH 17, 2025

London studio Threefold Architects has married red brick and timber for this home in Whitstable, Kent , which is designed as a "contemporary reinterpretation" of the area's mock-Tudor architecture. Eight Gables is topped by an interlocking hipped roof clad with Kentish peg tiles, in another reference to its local context.

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JUNE 6, 2022

Francois Verhoeven Architects has completed a house in a Dutch village featuring a roof with three sloping sections that incorporate skylights , sedum and concealed solar panels. Villa K2 features a multi-pitched roof. The home is designed to complement its surroundings. It was clad in vertical timber slats. "At

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MARCH 10, 2025

Read: HW Studio's vaulted concrete home nestles into forest outside Morelia The skylight forms a glowing rectangle at the peak of the ceiling, continuing across the full width of the house. "The choice of changing material aims to blur its presence or make it appear lighter, as if it were a piece of cotton floating in space," the team said.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Canadian architecture studio Lemay has designed a chalet prototype with a sloped roof and extensive glazing using mass timber in Potton, Quebec. It's home, one that interconnects you with nature while having as low an impact as possible on it," Lemay said.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2024

As Los Angeles embraces densification, the tension between multifamily living and single-family homes intensifies," the team said. Other projects by LOHA include a Raleigh apartment building with a highly sculptural roof and a cedar-clad housing block in Detroit. Overall, the building is meant to have a neighbourly feel. "As

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JANUARY 18, 2024

A private roof terrace enclosed by greenery features in Hidden Garden House, a Sydney home reconfigured by Australian studio Sam Crawford Architects. Situated within a conservation zone, the home has been updated by Sam Crawford Architects to brighten its dark interior and transform it into an urban "sanctuary".

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APRIL 10, 2025

Project Details: Location: Matanzas, Chile Architect: Gonzalo Rufin Arquitectos / @ gonzalorufin Architect: Felipe Toro Footprint: 861 square feet Builder: Constructora Guay Guay Structural Engineer: Jorge Argandona Photographer: Pablo Casals / @ pablocasalsaguirre_works From the Architect: "In the middle of a mountainous sector surrounded by forests (..)

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APRIL 21, 2023

We utilized stone from both the site and neighboring farms to anchor the building into the site, with rough-sawn timber cladding talking to the lost bush land, and a galvanized steel roof that is a nod to the vernacular Australian farmhouse. Have one to share? Post it here. The clients erected and filled the gabion walls themselves.

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APRIL 24, 2023

Local architect Tomás de Iruarrizaga has designed Casa Granic, a holiday home located on a hillside by Riñihue Lake in Chile that is meant for "year-round living". Iruarrizaga designed the 500-square-metre house with a timber-clad upper level that bridges two rectangular concrete structures. The photography is by Cristóbal Palma.

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APRIL 8, 2025

The project encompasses a reconfiguration of the existing building as the base with a new upper floor addition which spans the established gardens on the site and replans the home with a new central core for this multigenerational family home. The large 10m clear span walls are punctuated with long slot windows for cross ventilation.

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APRIL 20, 2023

Inspired by the history of grand architectural spaces and ship-building techniques, a vaulted roof was developed so that head heights could be increased beyond the standard sloped side extension and still fall within the planning constraints of eaves and roof heights set by the local authority.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Curved ceilings create a cozy feel, but wall-height windows throughout the L-shaped plan keep the home connected to its courtyard. The lower flat roof hangs above the connecting section. The gardens gradually divide the residence and create harmony for the environment both at home and from the outside.

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JANUARY 29, 2024

Local studio Oliver Leech Architects has extended a Victorian terrace house in south London, introducing a four-metre-wide skylight at its centre that offers views of a wildflower meadow roof. We saw this central skylight as the central anchor to the new house, surrounded by all the key spaces," he added. The photography is by Jim Stephenson.

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JULY 9, 2024

A living roof is heavy; managing the extra weight requires careful consideration in its design. Welcome to How They Pulled It Off where we take a close look at one particularly challenging aspect of a home design and get the nitty-gritty details about how it became a reality. Photo: Stéphane Groleau The house in summer camouflage.

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AUGUST 21, 2024

Geometric windows, a slatted cedar screen, and split roof offer a contemporary take on traditional A-frames. A contemporary interpretation of the traditional A-frame shape evokes the quintessential cabin in the woods, differentiated by shifted roof volumes. Have one to share? Post it here.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A cantilevered form with thatched surfaces defines Summer House, a holiday home designed by architecture studio RAPA on the shores of Lake Balaton in Hungary. The lower storey is informed by local 1960s flat-roofed architecture and clad in stone that is mined locally in Tihany. The photography is by Tamas Bujnovszky.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2022

CLB Architects designed a Japanese-influenced home in Wyoming. Locally based CLB Architects noted that the design — influenced by both Japanese architecture and California modernism – is a departure from the mountain modernism typical of vacation homes built in the region. The facade of the home is simple and linear.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

The home, called Wabi Sabi Residence and completed in 2020 is a 4,000-square-foot (370-square metre) structure on a nine-acre lot in the Wasatch Range. Sparano + Mooney created the cantilevered home near Salt Lake City. The home is topped with a green roof. Builder: Living Home Construction.

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JANUARY 12, 2024

A sawtooth roof, blue ceramic tiles and corrugated steel panels define this home in Madrid , Spain , designed by Ignacio G Galán and OF Architects. A sequence of cascading gardens wrap around the home, providing outdoor seating along with a small pool.

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Structural Engineer: Martin Wünsche Fire Safety Engineering: Pavla Tvrdá EPC: Tomáš Brückner Footprint: 1,560 square feet From the Architects: " The clients specified that the building program should include a home for a family of four and a separate unit for their grandparents. was quite difficult in this case.

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MARCH 18, 2024

Drawing on the local farmhouse typology, the home by Richard Parr Associates features a sloped-roof brick structure clad with charred timber and topped with corrugated metal roofing. The 350-metre-square home is split into four distinct quarters spread across two wings, each fronted with monolithic brick walls.

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Landscape Designer: Michal Marcinov Structural Engineer: Katarína Kyselová Steel Constructions: Samuel Šimonovi? Photographer: Maxime Delvaux / @maxdelv From the Architect: " Villa Bôrik is set within a neighborhood of relatively homogenous homes with private gardens that form a continuous landscape.

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JANUARY 31, 2022

Wood, stone and lime plaster pervade the minimal interior of this energy-saving home in Muswell Hill that Architecture for London has created for its founder, Ben Ridley. The interiors of the home are finished with natural materials. The house's original timber roof has been preserved. Services engineer: Green Building Store.

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AUGUST 3, 2024

Throughout the home, CO Adaptive removed perimeter flooring to install a membrane, then replaced it with reclaimed boards at an angle Rather than throwing out the contents of the existing structure, all of the removed materials were separated by type and sent to new homes. The photography is by Naho Kubota.

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